Below is the link to an ISTEP practice test. Do not fill in any blanks at the log in page, just click login. This is a great way for students to practice using the tools like the highlighter, calculator, eraser, and rulers. Click on the link below:http://learnoas.ctb.com/ISTEP/

Blogger - Great way to keep stats on your blog. Nice and easy to use interface. (Searchable)

Boom Writer - Easy way to encourage creative writing. Teacher can post videos/pics and students can comment on them - even vote on which story they like best.

Kid Blog - Designed for K-8 teachers to allow students a more controlled environment to blog in.

Posterous- Posterous is the very simple way to put anything online using email. You simply email a file (movie, document, sound, etc.) to an email and you will have these items collected in a blog format.

livebinders.com Add URLs to your favorite sites to a virtual binder that can be shared with others. You can also add text and comments to your binder. It’s like creating your own book. Visitors can also Search the LiveBinder site for resources.

diigo.com this is a social bookmarking site and the educator account is what you want to consider. Teachers can create “classroom” groups and generate accounts for students (or invite students with existing accounts to join a group). Users can highlight, mark-up and cache websites that show up in their personal and shared libraries.

symbaloo- Very visual way to organize online content. Excellent way to share resources.

delicious- del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. Essentially it acts as an internet base for a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. Teachers and Students can use del.icio.us to keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, reviews, and more, and access them from any computer on the web.

Sqworl - Great way to organize bookmarks for a class. When you create the bookmark the site will create a thumbnail of your link.

Stich.it - One of the easiest ways to bookmark several pages you want students to look at. Creates a flipbook of the sites with descriptions. All you do is provide the list of links.

http://getpocket.com/ Pocket (Formerly Read It Later) is a visual organizer that has a booklet tool for convenient use. You can tag your entries. Your lists can be organized in various ways and are searchable.

http://pinterest.com/ Create boards and “pin” items that you find worth keeping. You don’t have to have an account to search and find resources, but when you create an account you can start pinning. You can also have collaborative boards such as all sixth grade science teachers could be pinning to one board.

Educaplay - Website that allows teachers to create all kinds of different interactives for students.

GoSoapBox- GoSoapBox is used during class to break down participation barriers, keeping students engaged, and giving teachers insight into student comprehension that was never before possible.

Kubbu - Easy way for teachers to create interactives such as games, quizzes, or crosswords. They can be shared online.

Socrative - A site where I can create quizzes, questions, surveys, etc and the students can do it in class. Similar to a voting system. Allows me to keep track of how each student is progressing. If I put it on display it allows them to check their own progress against each other. Very powerful tool. Designed for educators and good tech support.

Field Trips (If you need help with Google Earth please email Brian Bobbitt)

Google Lit Trips - Trips take students through the times and places of several popular novels.

Google Trips - Virtual paths taken by explorers, authors, etc. Created by students from around the globe.

The Khan Academy – At Khan, students and teachers are encouraged to “Watch… Practice… Learn almost anything for free”. The academy has a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 276 practice exercises. They make it clear that they are on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

A Web Whiteboard- A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world.

iPads

Appitic - Perhaps the most comprehensive educational app site available. Reviewed by teachers for teachers.

Evernote.com - Free apps for mobile devices and website login where teachers and students can take notes on mobile devices and edit, review, and print from any other mobile device. Sync keeps all of them up-to-date. You can use it for reminders and document storage too.

Online Storage (Use them all and get 17GB Free Storage)

Dropbox - Great and quick way to store files in the cloud and share them. (2GB Storage free account)

Box.net - Great and quick way to store files in the cloud and share them. (5GB Storage free account)

pixlr.com photo editing. Has a tooth whitener and wrinkle remover etc... There are two versions. I believe both to be free. He said full version is much like photoshop.

Podcasting/Screencasting

Screencast-o-matic - Web based version. Very nice and saves the video tutorial you create in an .mp4 file which is compatible with nearly every system, including mobile devices. Pretty simple to use. Limited to 15 minutes.

Jing - This is a download and you’ll need an account. Saves the file in .swf format, which is not as compatible. However, the students all have this program installed on their netbooks. Limited to 5 minutes.

Mentimeter - Creating QUICK polls students can access quickly. Will even let people vote through smart phones so it could work in a PD session.

Google Forms - My favorite way to gather data. Create the form and the data is collected and instantly entered into the spreadsheet. Also will create graphs with some limitations.

Survey Monkey - A lot more complex. Good way to create surveys for a large group of people and collect data.

Polleverywhere - Creating real-time polls that can be accessed through numerous devices including mobile. Quick and easy.

Portals

Edmodo - A great site to organize groups of people and share out resources. Similar to setup of Facebook, but with a lot more security and teacher control function. Very school friendly. Can even add discussion boards.

My Big Campus - A powerful way to store files, discussions, and classroom documents online. Lots of resource bundles (unit plans) available and several ways to communicate with students.

Presentations

Prezi - A nice non-linear approach to creating presentations. Little more friendly with video in my opinion. Nice change-up to Power Poiint or ActivInspire. (Searchable Site to get ideas)

Slide Rocket - An online version of Power Point. Teacher or student can easily share a presentation. Also has similar features to Google Presentations in that users can collaborate.

Google Docs - Hands down the best way to allow collaboration on projects. Part of a suite that offers a word processor, presentations, spreadsheets, forms, and drawings. Also a nice alternative to store files.

e.ggtimer.com put a slash after the .com and number you put after the slash will count down. Check out the site first. You can do minutes, seconds, days, etc... It really ise.ggtimer.com that is not a typo.

Online Stopwatch - Several different types of clocks. Stopwatches to split times and hour glasses.

School Tube - The site is essentially the same as YouTube with tighter restrictions on video. Videos are approved by teachers. Very good searching component.

Sports Science - Awesome collection of short videos that will engage kids in science and math from the people at ESPN.

Newton’s Apple - Discover the fascinating science of the world around us through over 300 video clips. Browse the categories, or enter a question or a keyword in the search box. There are a number of videos with resource guides included.

Watch/Know/Learn - Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnowLearn is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal. Presently this community has over 30,000 videos and is growing every day through contributions from teachers across the globe.

NBC Learn - Free videos, some are in a series - sponsored by NBC on the topics of: Science of NHL hockey, Chemistry Now, Changing Planets, Science of NFL Football, Finishing the Dream, Science of the Olympic Winter Games.

19 Pencils - A way to share educational content, quizzes, assignments, etc. with students. In essence you create your own website and students access it.

Weebly - I know a lot of HTML code, but for this I don’t need that knowledge until I get to the highly advanced end. This is the simplest setup I have ever seen in website creation. Drag and drop style. Templates are provided so I don’t have to be an artist either. It can do several advanced things as well. Free account is more than plenty for what we need.